2015 Archive Stories HSG Swimming

Not long after taking up swimming at age 4, Claire Fisch was disqualified from a 200-yard individual medley when she swam the opening leg freestyle.
Perhaps the Riverside King junior was just inclined to be a freestyle sprinter. At 6 feet tall she’s certainly built for the role and the intensity with which she approaches competitio

There are plenty of metrics by which to gauge the success of the Redlands East Valley girls swimming team’s season — from taking two relays to the inaugural CIF state championships, to placing fifth at the CIF-SS Division 2 finals, or the slew of individual titles earned at the Citrus Belt League finals.
But the crowning achi

ALL-AREA FIRST TEAM
MADISON FREDERICK
Temecula Chaparral, Sophomore
What she did: 13th in 200 free at CIF state meet, where she helped 400 free relay place 16th ... Took second in 100 back and seventh in 200 free at CIF-SS Division 2 finals, where she helped 200 medley relay finish third and 40

Not only did Murrieta Valley’s Mike Gonzalez double his workload when he took on the coaching duties for the Nighthawks boys swimming program this year, but he also had the tall task of replacing highly respected program architect Genevieve Barrow.
It proved to be a seamless transition, as Gonzalez’s low-key sty

Michael Jones already possessed the raw tools to be an elite freestyle sprinter. He just needed some refinement. The Vista Murrieta swimmer spent the past two years going the extra mile in training, and the result was a senior season stretched further than even he thought possible. In addition to leaving behind four school records,

In the lead-up to the inaugural California state swimming championship meet, the Wall Street Journal, of all platforms, asked in the web headline of a widely read story focusing on the unprecedented event, “Does high school swimming matter?”
If you ask any of the thousands who descended upon Clovis Olympic Swim Complex at Clo

FRESNO – At the climactic moment of a meet like none other before it, Claire Fisch and Michael Jones continued to swim faster than they ever have.
Fisch, a Riverside King junior, and Jones, a senior out of Vista Murrieta, both managed to lower their personal-best marks when it mattered most – in the championship finals of t

CLOVIS – While the field of competitors was narrowed down to a select few, all who participated in Friday afternoon’s prelims became a part of history in the first-ever CIF State Swimming and Diving Championships. A handful of local athletes swam well enough at Clovis Olympic Swim Complex on the campus of Clovis West High to m

With the CIF state swimming championships making its debut this season, it was anyone’s guess as to how Southern Section swimmers would react to the addition of an unprecedented super meet tacked onto the end of the high school season.
The reaction around the Inland Empire has been almost entirely enthusiastic, as 16 individuals an

RIVERSIDE – With some leagues formerly in CIF-SS Division1 dropping down this season, and some other teams moving up after dominating lower divisions, the Division2 swimming finals Saturday at Riverside Aquatics Center were one of the fastest ever.
Want proof? Eight of the 22 events saw division records set, and in more than one in

Winning the Big VIII League title and finishing second in CIF-SS Division2 last year ended the Riverside King girls swimming team’s season on a high note. With a host of new challenges, both from external factors and from within, things haven’t always been so harmonious for the Wolves this season, though.
Rival Corona Santiago dethroned

Redlands advanced an area-best 19 qualifiers, including relay teams, to Saturday’s CIF-SS Division2 swimming finals at Friday morning’s prelims at Riverside Aquatic Center.
The Terriers, who were dropped down to Division2 this year as part of the Citrus Belt League after previously inhabiting Division1, moved on 10 boys qualifiers and ni

RIVERSIDE – Beaumont was the only area team to garner a top-10 finish for both its boys and girls teams at the CIF-SS Division4 swimming finals at Riverside Aquatics Center on Friday night, while the boys from Riverside Notre Dame came through with a ninth-place finish.
For the Cougars girls, their 10-place showing with 75 points was a p

RIVERSIDE – Nathan Ketcheside said he showed up at Thursday night’s CIF-SS Division 3 swimming finals just looking to have fun.
In winning a pair of indivdual titles in the 50-yard freestyle and 100 free at Riverside Aquatics Complex, the Riverside Poly sophomore had quite a good time, indeed.
Ketcheside’s double-win proved to be

RIVERSIDE – While the racing is yet to get started, the first day of the CIF-SS Swimming and Diving Championships saw the Inland Empire area come through with a win-place-show trifecta.
Raina Brommer of Riverside King won the Division 2 girls diving championship on the heels of Temecula Great Oak’s Jenner Pennock

Alek Walton suited up on Wednesday, April 29 for the Corona Santiago swim team's final Big VIII League dual meet of the season. He swam the 50-yard freestyle and won the event, like he had so many times before.
Three days later he attended his senior prom, where he was crowned king.
Until the life-changing events of a fate

Murrieta Valley’s girls had to fend off numerous challenges from Southwestern League rival Temecula Chaparral this season and did so once again Thursday, winning the league final meet to lock up the outright league title.
Murrieta Valley closely edged the Pumas at both the Nighthawk Classic and in a league dual earlier this season

EASTVALE – While Corona Santiago affirmed its team supremacy in the Big VIII League, Riverside King’s girls put on an impressive display in winning 10 individual titles to pace the Wolves program to an overall meet-best 11 individual champions.
The league finals Thursday afternoon at Eastvale Roosevelt were incredibly fast all around, wi

WILDOMAR – Just as soon as the Lake Elsinore Temescal Canyon swim teams had wrapped up yet another Sunbelt League championship at Wednesday’s league finals at Elsinore High, the Titans’ talk turned to the next task at hand.
“I think if we all do what we did today, we’ll win (the CIF-SS Division4 title) for s